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Not much of a catch then.
Not really, a lot of people still have SATA II mobos so there's no benefit of getting a SATA III drive when this drive is priced so well, most laptops only have SATA II so this drive would be ideal for them (got one on order for my laptop as it happens) and the 290 Mbs or so that SATA II is confined to will still make it a million times better than the current mech drive I have.
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Yeah - I'm investing in a couple of the SanDisk SSDs soon, a 2 and a 3 for my servers, will do nicely as a boot drive\vhd store.
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A lot of laptops, notebooks and netbooks are SataII and only have 100gb mech HDD's, so this will be perfect for them.
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The fact that it's not fast enough to saturate SataII there is defo no need for it to be Sata III.
I was looking for a 30GB SSD in the MM for a project, but at that price I could pull the aging, almost full 64GB M225 from my laptop, pop this in it's place and use the M225 for the project.
I was looking for a 30GB SSD in the MM for a project, but at that price I could pull the aging, almost full 64GB M225 from my laptop, pop this in it's place and use the M225 for the project.
Yes the type of NAND is has is important if it's not going to lose performance as it fills up. But if that's all well then it's simply because if the recent price drops and the fact it's SATA II limited.
I must say it's a welcome step in the right direction for prices though.
sandforce.
Yep.
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why is that a catch, i know nothing about ssd's
It mainly means it won't perform anywhere near those speeds when dealing with in-compressible data, which I believe is things such as music, movies, and games.
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The Sandforce controller in my aged Vertex LE (SATA II... for the win
) seems to cope with this OK in non benchmark real world usage
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As already stated my many so far .... for a lappy or older non SATA 3 system... it's just a damn good buy at the moment.
Hi there
It is simple as this:-
Going from HDD to SSD is like WOW, OMG I am amazed.
Going from SATA2 to SATA3 SSD is like, mmmmm ok its a bit faster, I am happy.
So if your still using a HDD, you now have no excuse as this drive is like close to 50p per Gigabyte = BARGAIN!
It is simple as this:-
Going from HDD to SSD is like WOW, OMG I am amazed.
Going from SATA2 to SATA3 SSD is like, mmmmm ok its a bit faster, I am happy.
So if your still using a HDD, you now have no excuse as this drive is like close to 50p per Gigabyte = BARGAIN!